Bug#834606: xdg-user-dirs: translations of dirnames should comply with best practice

[Simon Oosthoek]

Package: xdg-user-dirs
Version: 0.15-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After installing the 8.x release of Debian-Edu I came into my newly created homedirectory and I was surprised by the pre-created directories.

Due to this being a server for children in a Dutch school, the server was installed with "Nederlands" (Dutch) as main language. Apparently (and perhaps correctly) this led to the default freedesktop.org directories being created with translated names.

The directory "Video's" was created instead of the English "Videos", which is correctly spelled plural in Dutch for "Video", however, it does not comply with the Unix best practices for directory names (only use letters and digits and some other characters like "-" or "_" for filenames)

You can imagine what could happen if some user (probably inexperienced) would learn commandline stuff and try out:

$ ls Video's/

I would suggest that this bug is fixed if all translations have been checked and fixed for compliance with sensible Unix filenames.

PS, the system info below is not for the exact same system I spotted the bug on.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xdg-user-dirs depends on:
ii  libc6  2.19-18+deb8u4

xdg-user-dirs recommends no packages.

xdg-user-dirs suggests no packages.

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